Thursday, August 04, 2011

Buffet

This week's links. Enjoy.

New Hitchcock Film DiscoveredExciting news for film fans — an early Alfred Hitchcock film has been found in New Zealand! Called The White Shadow, it's an atmospheric melodrama about twin sisters — one angelic and the other “without a soul.” Sadly there's only 3 reels left of the original 6, but I'd love to see it anyway!

Planet TildaCheck out this amazing W magazine slide show of the always wonderful Tilda Swinton, photographed by Tim Walker. Otherworldly is the only way I can describe it.

Favorite Snacks of the Great WritersLove this. Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton draws the favourite snacks of writers past and present — F. Scott Fitzgerald liked canned meat and apples, Marcel Proust drank a serious amount of espresso and Emily Dickinson enjoyed her own home baked bread. Follow the link to see some more unusual snacks, too.

Cloud SpottingLovely and informative BBC photo essay with the Met Office's John Hammond decoding cloud photos sent by viewers of BBC One's The Great British Weather. The photos are just gorgeous. Via The Browser.

The Year's Best Product Design: A $7 CarryallThe design site Core77 has announced the winners of its first competition — and the Product/Equipment winner isn’t a magazine-ready, industrially produced piece of technology but a low-cost, ergonomic carrier for improving the working conditions of global laborers, designed by Vikram Dinubhai Panchal. Brilliant and affordable design.

Honey SeasonIt's honey season, and Saveur has a delicious range of recipes that use honey in all its wonderful varieties. I still miss the extraordinary orange blossom honey I used to buy from a Polish deli years ago — the flavour was just amazing.